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On November 13, Blue Origin prepared for a critical test: launching NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars after two failed attempts, each derailed by unpredictable forces—first by Florida’s volatile weather,
Blue Origin successfully launched—and partially landed—its New Glenn rocket on Thursday. The achievement marks a major step forward in the company’s bid to rival SpaceX as a reliable provider of reusable rockets for NASA and other government agencies.
Blue Origin is preparing to launch its massive New Glenn rocket on just its second spaceflight in 2025. Here's how to watch a livestream.
Created in 2000 by Bezos, Amazon's founder, Blue Origin already holds a NASA contract for the third moon landing by astronauts under the Artemis program. Musk’s SpaceX beat out Blue Origin for the first and second crew landings, using Starships, nearly 100 feet (30 meters) taller than Bezos' New Glenn.
NASA’s presumptive next leader wants to outsource more of the space agency’s interplanetary science. The newly launched ESCAPADE mission to Mars offers a sanity check for those plans